DUCAT DERBY: Getting tickets for the two...

DUCAT DERBY: Getting tickets for the two U2 concerts at Dodger Stadium later this month wasn’t quite the fuss that it was for the band’s Los Angeles Sports Arena shows last April--when a phone-order-only sales method generated more than 2 million phone calls in less than three hours. But it was still the usual hassle for most of the 100,000 people who will be attending the shows.

But not for about 2,000 lucky fans. All they had to do was mail in a request and wait for their tickets to come. For years, U2 has quietly made tickets available to fans who subscribe to its official magazine, Propaganda.

Ellen Darst, director of U2’s management company, says that in every site the band plays, it holds out three of the first 10 rows for fan club sales--at Dodger Stadium it’s the fourth, eighth and ninth rows--with the rest of the seats spread out around the stadium.